Hotlinking is a term which describes the addition of images on a given website via direct links. If you have site A, for instance, and a person creates site B and wants to add a number of images from your website, they could either save the images and then include them on their site or they can simply put links on their website to the images on yours. Subsequently, whenever a visitor opens website B, site B will steal traffic from your own website A, because the images will load straight from your hosting account. This process is oftentimes used for documents and other types of files as well. If you wish to prevent third parties from stealing your content and from using your own hosting account’s resources, you can limit their ability to use direct links to your files on their websites.

Hotlinking Protection in Hosting

It will not take more than a few clicks to activate the hotlink protection function which we provide even if this is the 1st web hosting account you use, since all our hosting include a rather simple and easy to work with tool that will allow you to prevent direct links to your content. The tool is a component of our innovative Hepsia Control Panel, so it provides the very same easy-to-use point-and-click interface. After you log in to your account’s back office and navigate to the Hotlink Protection section, you'll only need to choose the domain or subdomain that you would like to protect from a drop-down list. If you would like to switch on this feature only for a certain Internet site folder, you will have the option to do that. All websites with active hotlink protection will appear inside this section and you could disable the service by selecting the checkbox next to the given site and pressing the Delete button.